I went into this with delusions that I'd make a beautiful, heirloom teddy bear -- old-fashioned and soft mohair and shiny glass eyes. But when I set to work, this funny little guy is who I ended up with.

Not exactly the perfect Winnie-the-pooh bear I'd imagined, but a bear nonetheless.

A bear with his own charms & his own striped trousers.

We just returned from London (and a side-trip to Paris) & there are things I want to share from the trip. I also need to finish posting the last few Eleanor pieces.

I'm living honeycrisp apple to honeycrisp apple and the smell of woodsmoke hangs in the air and there are heaps of pumpkins at the grocery store and talk turns to ghosts and baked things and sweaters and the call of the woods gets so loud and around it all, that ambery light.

Is there a more enchanted month than October? The more I'm around, the more I find out that it's nearly everyone's favorite. And it's mine too.